Geri Palast

Geri Palast is an attorney, the executive director for the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE), and a Root-Tilden Public Service Law Scholar from NYU School of Law. Palast is a graduate of Stanford University with honors, and graduated NYU Law School in 1976. Geri Palast was director of the Washington office of the National Employment Law Project and Legislative and Program Analyst of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees. In 1991, she became director of Politics and Legislation for the Service Employees International Union. In 1993, she was named Assistant Secretary of Labor for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations under President Bill Clinton. She served in that position until 2000, when she became...